Blacking-brush and box-holder



(No Model.) Y

J. S. MOORE. BLAGKING BRUSHJAND BOX HGLDER.

No. 499,436. y Patented June 13, 1893.

Wi 955%v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES S. MOORE,` OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

BL ACK|NGBRUSH AND BOX-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,436, dated June 13, 1893. Application tiled May 27, 1F92. Serial No. 434,538. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES S. MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Blacking-Brush and Box-Holder, of which the following is a specication.

The invention relates to improvements in blacking brush and blacking box holders.

The object of the present invention is to provide a -simple and inexpensive combined blacking brush and blaoking box holder, adapted to compactly hold a blackin g box and capable of enabling the latter to be removed for supplying the dauber with blacking without liability of the blacking coming in contact 'with the fingers of the user.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings-Figure 1 isa perspective view of a blacking brush and box holder constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional View. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the box handle and box detached.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the draw- 1n s.

il designates a blacking brush provided at one end with a handle 2 and having at its other end a dauber 3, the handle and the dauber being secured to the back 4c of the brush in the usual manner. The space `be- .tween the dauber and the handle receives a blacking box 5 which is secured by hook bolts 6 to a box handle 7 extending along the brush handle and arranged in a recess S thereof and forming a section of the brush handle when in place. The bottom of the blacking box is arranged against the straight portion 9 of a box handle, and it is clamped to the box handle by the said hook bolts which are provided with thumb nuts 10 arranged on the upper face of the box handle, the inner bolt being arranged in a longitudinal slot 11 of the box handle, whereby the bolts may be adjusted to receive diierent sizes of blacking boxes. The back 4 of the blacking brush is recessed to receive the blacking box to protect the blacking from the air, but the box may fit tightly against the upper face of the back to avoid recessing. The lower end 12 of the box handle is provided with a V-shaped notch and is extended downward to form a shoulder, and it is arranged in a recess 13 of the dauber frame 14, and is held therein by a pin 15 which fits in the notch 16. The box handle is secured to the brush handle by a spring clip or clasp 17 and to enable it to be readily removed therefrom, depressions 18 are formed in the side of the brush and box handles to enable the latter one to be readily grasped.

It will be seen that the combined blacking brush land box holder is simple andcomparatively inexpensive in construction, and that the whole is compactly arranged, that the blacking when not in use is protected from the air and prevented drying up, and that it may be readily used without coming in contact with the fingers of the user.

What I claim is- 1. The combination with a blacking brush provided with a rigid dauber at one end and a rigid handle at the other and having a space between the dauber and the handle, a blacking box handle extending along the top of and conforming to the shape of the brush handle and detachably secured thereto, and an inverted blacking box rigidly secured to the inner end of the blacking box handle and arranged in said space, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a blacking brush having a handle at one end and a dauber at the other and forming a box receiving space between them, of a box handle extending yalong the brush handle and detachably secured thereto and extending over the box receiving space, and hook bolts adapted to engage over the edges of a blaeking box and provided with nnts for clamping the blacking box, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a blacking brush having a handle at one end and a dauber at the other and forming a box receiving space between them, said handle being recessed, a spring clasp arranged on the brush handle, a box handle extending along the brush handle and arranged in the recess thereof and completingthe handle and detachably secured IOO thereto by the spring clasp and provided with a longitudinal slot, the hook bolts arranged on the box handle and adapted to engage the edges of a blacking box and provided with nuts, one of the bolts being arranged in the slots, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a blaeking brush having a handle at one end and provided with a danber at the other having a recess, a pin arranged in the recess, a box handle extending along the brush handle and detachably secured thereto and provided at its lower end With a notch receivingthe said pin, the lower end of the box handle tting in the recess of the dauber, and means for securing a blacking box to the box handle, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES S. MOORE.

WVitnesses:

CURG HUNSAKER, G-Eo. E. DAVIS. 

